Digitally Imported
Digitally Imported ( DI.FM also ) is an American Internet radio station that specializes in electronic music styles like Trance, Techno or House. At the same company include the sister stations SKY.FM who served beyond the spectrum of electronic music and JAZZRADIO.com which covers the world of jazz and blues.
History
Digitally Imported was founded to make on December 6, 1999 by Ari Shohat, the pursued the goal of trance and techno music imports from Europe to the American public via the Internet readily available. He would thus ensure the proliferation and acceptance of this genre in the United States. The program was initially sent over a 56kb connection and initially consisted of only a single channel, the Trance Channel. Soon this was, however, extended to more channels, sent the music related styles of Hard Trance and Euro Dance. The number of genres offered was constantly expanded, increased the available data bandwidth continuously. So DI.FM grew beside AccuRadio and Live365 to a market- leading web radio empire, which now covers almost the entire range of electronic music styles. In the meantime, listen to peak some 90,000 listeners the 50 stations, including those of its sister station SKY.FM.
Business
Although the company is profit oriented, they derived from the sale of advertising and audio streaming subscriptions not enough revenue to pay all expenses such as traffic and maintenance of the server. The Company is instructed by its own account on the work of volunteers, and in addition to donations from patrons. (Source website)
The transmitter is a company registered in New York State " Digitally Imported, Inc." Responsible CEO of DI.FM and SKY.FM is still the founder Ari Shohat.
Shipments
The most well-known broadcast on DI.FM is the weekly "A State Of Trance " by Armin van Buuren on the Trance Channel that is transmitted on many other radio stations worldwide. The senior show, however, is "Trance Formation" (formerly Trance -N -Motion in partnership with Tommaso De Donati ), presented by the German DJ Ciacomix working in the team of Digital Imported since 2000. Moreover, he was one of the first DJs DI.FM which played a live broadcast.
In principle, any DJ or producer with DI apply for the release of his productions, which then - be included in the track rotation - provided they meet the quality requirements.
An important, recurring highlight are live broadcasts from clubs or events at which additionally often a video stream is offered, which is like the pure audio stream can be received free of charge.
The current month program you can refer to DI.fm event calendar.
Programs
Currently ( as at 1 January 2014) available channels (programs ) are:
DI.FM
- Ambient
- Big Room House
- Breaks
- ChillHop
- Chillout
- Chillout Dreams
- Chill Step
- Chiptunes
- Classic Euro Dance
- Classic Euro Disco
- Classic trance
- Classic Vocal Trance
- Club Dubstep
- Club Sounds
- Cosmic Downtempo
- DJ Mixes
- Dark DnB
- Deep House
- Deep Nu Disco
- Deep Tech
- Disco House
- Downtempo Lounge
- Drum ' n Bass
- Dubstep
- EcLectronica
- Electro House
- Electronic Pioneers
- Electropop
- Epic trance
- Euro Dance
- Funky House
- Future Synthpop
- Gabber
- Glitch Hop
- Goa - Psy Trance
- Hands Up
- Hard Dance
- Hardtechno
- Hardcore
- Hardstyle
- House
- Latin House
- Liquid DnB
- Liquid Dubstep
- Lounge
- MainStage
- Minimal
- Moombahton
- Oldschool Acid
- Oldschool Techno & Trance
- Progressive
- Progressive Psy
- PsyChill
- Psybient
- Russian club hits
- Sankeys Radio
- Scouse House
- Soulful House
- Space Dreams
- Tech House
- Techno
- Trance
- Trap
- Tribal House
- UK Garage
- UMF Radio
- Underground Techno
- Vocal Chillout
- Vocal lounge
- Vocal trance
SKY.FM
- 60 's Rock
- 80 's Dance
- 80's Rock Hits
- 90 's Hits
- 90 's R & B
- A Beatles Tribute
- Alternative Rock
- American Songbook
- Bebop Jazz
- Best of the 60s
- Best of the 80's
- Bossa Nova
- Café de Paris
- Classic Motown
- Classic Rap
- Classic Rock
- Classical Guitar
- Classical Piano Trios
- Club Bollywood
- Compact Discoveries
- Contemporary Christian
- Country
- DaTempo lounge
- Dance Hits
- Dreamscapes
- Hard Rock
- Hit 70's
- Indie Rock
- Israeli Hits
- Jazz Classics
- Jpop
- Love Music
- Mellow Jazz
- Metal
- Modern Blues
- Modern Rock
- Mostly Classical
- Movie Soundtracks
- Nature
- New Age
- OldSchool Funk & Soul
- Oldies
- Piano Jazz
- Pop Punk
- Pop Rock
- Relaxation
- Relaxing Excursions
- Romantica
- Roots Reggae
- Russian Dance Hits
- Russian Pop
- Salsa
- Ska
- Smooth Jazz
- Smooth Jazz 24'7
- Smooth lounge
- Soft Rock
- Solo Piano
- Top Hits
- Uptempo Smooth Jazz
- Urban Jamz
- Vocal New Age
- Vocal Smooth Jazz
- World
Transmission
DI offers several channels, the free ( ad-supported ) can be heard.
The following stream bandwidth offered free of charge:
- 96 kbit / s MP3
- 40 kbit / s HE- AAC
For a monthly fee of between about 4 to 6 U.S. $ (depending on the minimum contract period ) the subscribers are additional bandwidth with higher audio quality available, where the commercial breaks attributable to:
- 256 kbit / s MP3
- 128 kbit / s AAC
- 64 & 40 kbit / s HE- AAC
Technology
For the transmission of the programs, the MP3 format is used, which is streamed via a Shoutcast server. Meanwhile, the programs can also be received in aacPlus format. In order to receive is a software MP3 player such as Clementine, Winamp, foobar2000, Amarok, Quicktime or VLC media player.